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Elementary Learning, Preschool Learning

Reading The Great Paper Caper was a nice segue into recycling our own paper and learning about tree conservation.

Conserving Trees and Recycling Paper: A Picture Book Lesson

To prepare for Earth Day and Arbor Day, we learned about conserving

Elementary Learning, Preschool Learning

Learn about the first dogs in space and make your own mini-rockets to take them there! This STEM project is sure to bring your students delight, all while learning about rockets and space race history.

Dogs in Space Mini-Rockets: Picture Book Space STEM

What could be better than learning about space and sending off our

Elementary Learning

Buildling a bird cage helped us practice designing and engineering a creation. Fun picture book inspired lesson!

Build a Bird Cage: Picture Book STEM Challenge

When I read Memoirs of a Parrot by Devin Scillian, I loved

Elementary Learning

The leprechaun traps STEM challenge is seasonal way to practice building things and learning from design mistakes. Inspired by the book How to Trap a Leprechaun.

Design a Leprechaun Trap: Picture Book STEAM Challenge

My daughter still talks about the time the “leprechauns” came to her

Elementary Learning, Preschool Learning

Balancing like The Cat in the Hat: A Mini-Lesson on the Center of Gravity

When my son was a toddler, his favorite page in The Cat

Preschool Learning

We contintued our Princess Preschool STEAM activities by design a castle, after being inspired by a princess show and Chris Van Dusen's book, If I Built a House.

Princess Preschool STEAM: Designing a Castle

My preschool daughter loves Princess Sofia and her animal friends, so I

Preschool Learning

Our Rapunzel engineering challenge let us play as we learned about building and as we retold a favorite story. Perfect for princess preschool!

Princess School: The Rapunzel Engineering Challenge

One subject keeps my preschooler interested right now, and that is princesses. She

Elementary Learning

We used small liquid measures from our kitchen to measure the volume of two different rocks using Archimedes' water displacement201703 archimedes water displacement science ideas.

Archimedes Water Displacement Science Lesson

We’ve learned how to find the volume of a cubical object (such

Elementary Learning

Understanding Robots: Finding the Fantasy in a Story

My son loves computer programming using Scratch, and he has always loved

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